1st Person RPG/Adventure Game

A place where you can keep others updated about your NES-related projects through screenshots, videos or information in general.

Moderator: Moderators

User avatar
infiniteneslives
Posts: 2104
Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:49 am
Location: WhereverIparkIt, USA
Contact:

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by infiniteneslives »

calima wrote:but if we're getting three 3d games already, that drops the uniqueness points for us all :s
FWIW I feel uniqueness should be judged against all games prior to the compo, not against entries in that compo. Pulling off decent 3D on the NES is exceptionally unique regardless of how many entires coincidentally pulled it off in that year's compo.

It's also about the game play in general, 2-3 different games which happen to use 3D can be completely unique from each other. Just as platformers can be very unique from each other as we saw last compo.
If you're gonna play the Game Boy, you gotta learn to play it right. -Kenny Rogers
User avatar
Punch
Posts: 365
Joined: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:52 am

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by Punch »

calima wrote:Yeah, mine is a realtime moving raycaster, but if we're getting three 3d games already, that drops the uniqueness points for us all :s
calling dibs on developing a 4D NES game. :mrgreen:
This is a block of text that can be added to posts you make. There is a 255 character limit.
User avatar
Alp
Posts: 223
Joined: Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:37 am

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by Alp »

Punch wrote:Thanks everyone :D

Alp, those screens look amazing... I'm starting to reconsider the look of my game now :lol: I also love how flexible your design is in regards to wall three dimensionality, but I feel like there are too many unique tiles required to draw all possible screens due to pattern overlap. How many tiles did you spend on your screens?

I need to find a decent tool to create art, even something like a 1-point perspective corridor is difficult to draw using NES Screen Tool or YY-CHR.
Heh, thanks!
I was inspired by the visuals in "Hired Guns", on the Amiga, and wanted to take a stab at wall height variation.

Uh... It's been a while, but I seem to recall slightly tweaking the brick patterns to tile better at some point, and getting it down to 180-something tiles, more than enough room left for a basic interface (font + frame). Unfortunately, after finally upgrading to a new computer, I'm not really sure where the "NES improved" version of the CHR ever went.
infiniteneslives wrote:FWIW I feel uniqueness should be judged against all games prior to the compo, not against entries in that compo. Pulling off decent 3D on the NES is exceptionally unique regardless of how many entires coincidentally pulled it off in that year's compo.

It's also about the game play in general, 2-3 different games which happen to use 3D can be completely unique from each other. Just as platformers can be very unique from each other as we saw last compo.
This is a fair point. My own game was going to have dungeons built out of large cubes, allowing me to take advantage of the height variation, to create interesting environments, and Dungeon Master-like puzzles, with more obvious solutions (pushing walls to make bridges, anyone?). I haven't touched the project since I got the basic map parser working, though.

The game would have had "real-time" combat, in a similar fashion to Dungeon Master.
User avatar
pubby
Posts: 583
Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:15 am

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by pubby »

I was actually going to make a 3d game and a dungeon crawling game too. Fuck.
M_Tee
Posts: 430
Joined: Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:24 am
Contact:

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by M_Tee »

The amount of dungeon crawlers on the NES are far too few. I certainly wouldn't complain if a compilation came out that just happened to have a few new ones on it.

Also, game looks great so far, and I dig the CGA color mode option as well.
User avatar
DRW
Posts: 2225
Joined: Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:59 pm

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by DRW »

calima wrote:There goes my surprise advantage :P
calima wrote:Yeah, mine is a realtime moving raycaster, but if we're getting three 3d games already, that drops the uniqueness points for us all :s
In my opinion, a "Swords and Serpents"-style dungeon crawler and a "Wolfenstein 3D"-raycasting game are different enough, so that this doesn't seem redundant. After all, it's totally different techniques and a different gameplay feeling.
I personally would really like to see a full raycasting game on the NES.

(By the way, what is the third 3D game?)
My game "City Trouble":
Gameplay video: https://youtu.be/Eee0yurkIW4
Download (ROM, manual, artworks): http://www.denny-r-walter.de/city.html
calima
Posts: 1745
Joined: Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:16 am

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by calima »

Alp's.
User avatar
DRW
Posts: 2225
Joined: Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:59 pm

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by DRW »

O.k.
I didn't understand his post as an indicator that he is actually planning to do such a game for the competition, only that he did something like that once.
My game "City Trouble":
Gameplay video: https://youtu.be/Eee0yurkIW4
Download (ROM, manual, artworks): http://www.denny-r-walter.de/city.html
User avatar
Myask
Posts: 965
Joined: Sat Jul 12, 2014 3:04 pm

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by Myask »

8-bit dungeon crawling? It'd probably sound something like…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbRR9igsOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XlWOOZ-O7E
;)
User avatar
Alp
Posts: 223
Joined: Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:37 am

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by Alp »

I meant to post this last week, and forgot, oops.
For those curious on how to make a dungeon crawler with depth, here's a quick demonstration.

First, measure a floor grid as usual, drawing lines to a vanishing point.
Image

Drawing the walls is easy, just draw a vertical line at the edge of each cell, like this.
Image

For simplicity, I've done all the measurements, and here's the final result, for a standard wallset.
Image

Now, to add depth, just rotate the guidelines by 90 degrees, and lay it over the regular walls.
Image

You now have a cubic wall grid!
Image

For this example, I recreated one of my old screens, using this method.
Image

Once the guidelines are removed, this example only uses 57 tiles!
Image

I could see somebody clever managing a Gold Box-like game within NROM limitations, and still having decent visuals.
User avatar
Punch
Posts: 365
Joined: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:52 am

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by Punch »

Oh wow, thanks for posting that! I'll use it as a guideline... had no time to work on it to be quite honest but that should change soon.
This is a block of text that can be added to posts you make. There is a 255 character limit.
User avatar
Punch
Posts: 365
Joined: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:52 am

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by Punch »

Update!

Thanks to Alp I managed to pin down the 1 point perspective for my game.

Image

Wireframe dungeon with columns that I came up with when experimenting. It looks cool, I'll probably use a wireframe dungeon for something in my game.

Image

Probably final Pattern ROM + palette configuration. I was trying to have each floor square have their own unique color but the transitions complicated everything, I could have had two distinctly colored floors but the UI would have had to reuse a color from the dungeon screen. Eww no. Right now I can have 6 different wall colors, a sky and ground (one of them is black), so it's all good.

The far left/right walls occupy a lot of pattern ROM space so I decided to only have walls with entry #1 as their color... if the walls follow the "Black; Dark tone; Light tone; Sky" rule for their palettes it's ok, but if I really need to have all 6 colors to be dramatically different from each other I can just eat the pattern ROM cost and duplicate their wall tiles with the second color. For double tall blocks I'll just cheat and do a "shadow" transition with black to go around attribute clash, don't want to create yet another set of tiles.

By the way, the far side walls look like fences because that was an failed attempt at dithering to make the wall look darker. :P


Guess I have the screen arrangements well defined, time to start coding. :beer:

edit: I can't believe I didn't mention this yet... for those who are wondering, the sample text is not something I came up with, I just used my favorite videogame quote: http://68.media.tumblr.com/502770bc588f ... o1_500.gif
This is a block of text that can be added to posts you make. There is a 255 character limit.
User avatar
tokumaru
Posts: 12427
Joined: Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:43 pm
Location: Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by tokumaru »

The wireframe with columns does indeed look really cool!
na_th_an
Posts: 558
Joined: Mon May 27, 2013 9:40 am

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by na_th_an »

Man, this looks awesome. Great job!
tepples
Posts: 22705
Joined: Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:12 pm
Location: NE Indiana, USA (NTSC)
Contact:

Re: 1st Person RPG/Adventure Game - Progress Thread

Post by tepples »

The wireframe dungeon made me think indoor scene, where the vertical elements are poles, pillars, or whatever holding up the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse, parking garage, or whatever.
Post Reply